Laziness Quotes, Sayings about being lazy

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Comfort should be conserved for when we need it most. Indulging in it makes it less valuable, and makes us less valuable.

Submitted by Paul Papageorge.
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A young man idle, an old man needy.
- English Proverb

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If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
- Bible

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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Jules Renard

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The only menace is inertia.
- St. John Perse

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Sloth is the key to poverty.
- Proverb

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Laziness will cause you pain.
- Arnis Jitsu

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Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
- David Dunham

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By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
- Proverb

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A loafer always has the correct time.
- Kin Hubbard

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I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
- Matthew Broderick

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
- Horace

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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
- Tom Petty

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He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
- Anon

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Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
- Kin Hubbard

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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
- Vauvenargues

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It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
- Saint Jerome

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People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
- Bob Hope

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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
- Anon

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Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
- German Proverb

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
- Horace

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Some men are so lazy they won’t even feed themselves.
- Bible

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There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
- Herbert Prochnov

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That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
- Pliny

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What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
- Bodie Thoene

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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
- Miguel Cervantes

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Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
- Feodor Mikhailovich

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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Benjamin Franklin

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The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
- R.t. Wombat

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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank

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My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
- Granni Nazzano

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He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys.
- Bible

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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
- Charlie McCarthy

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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
- Ambrose Bierce

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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
- Karl Marx

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Idleness and lack of occupation tend nay are dragged towards evil.
- Hippocrates

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
- Milton Friedman

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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
- Floyd Dell

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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
- Henry Ford

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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
- Napoleon Hill

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